Monday, March 27, 2006

Heart thumping experience

I spent my Saturday doing the practical part of First Aid training. What a hoot! As a part of my beoming a Teacher's Aid I have to get a certificate in Senior First Aid - you know, so I know how to do really cool things with a bandage if one of the little possums should run in with blood streaming from part of their body, or something like that.

The thing is though, the Trainer who took the class could have cared less about straight edges on a bandage (apparantly that's a huge issue with some of the First Aid Training places). His thing and what I spent most of the day perfecting is the fine art of CPR. I was sooo unprepared for how physical the whole process is. Seriously, I think there's an opening for CPRaerobics - where you can get fit and learn how to save lives at the same time!

The CPR practice was so intense that the wrist and thumb area of my right hand is still swollen and bruised and my shoulders, arms, stomach and hips ached for a whole day....oh and the area just below my bottom lip was bruised.

By time the class was over and I was allowed to drag my weary body to my car to go home, I looked and felt more like I'd just done a round or two with Mohamad Ali (in his prime) rather than having just spent the day learning how to save a life.

The instructor dude had warned the class that he would be pushing us to our limits....he wasn't joking!

Ohhh yuppp....I learnt heaps! The CPR & what to do with a choking person was probably the most important I think.

I had to do CPR on my Mum - with the help of the emergency service on the phone and I know now that eventhough I was doing what they were telling me...I wasn't applying enough pressure or breathing hard enough to really help her. I'm cool with that, because I didn't know any better at the time and it wouldn't have made any difference.

But with being able to practice for real on the dummies it's given me a better feel of how it should be if ever there is a next time ( I hope not!). :-) *^*^~*^*^*^*~

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